Photographs: English Rovers Tours

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Marjorie Lockley is credited with organising the first trip of an All England Ladies' Lacrosse Association (AELLA) team to Ireland in April 1928 to play the recently formed (1926) Dublin Pioneers Ladies' Lacrosse Club The English team included several members from the national team. Marjorie was Secretary of the AELLA and was very interested in helping to promote lacrosse in Ireland. The visit was judged to be a success and subsequently established as the English Rovers Tour to Ireland in 1929 and 1930. Kathleen Lockley was a member of the English Rovers team in April 1929 and December 1930.

Contains several photographs of the English Rovers teams in [1928], 1929 and 1930, and of the Dublin Pioneers and Belfast Ladies.